Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Economy Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansoori will co-chair the upcoming fourth meeting of the Vietnam-UAE Intergovernmental Committee in Abu Dhabi on April 18.
Ho Chi Minh City’s economy remained on the growth in the first quarter of this year, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong at a review meeting in early April.
Ho Chi Minh City attracted over 1.55 billion USD in foreign direct investment in the first quarter of this year, up 20.4 percent year-on-year, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
The number of newly-established businesses in the first quarter of this year reached 28,451 with the total registered capital of 375.5 trillion VND (16.14 billion USD), up 6.2 percent and 34.8 percent year-on-year, respectively.
The sound political relations between Vietnam and France will pave the way for the bilateral cooperation in other fields, leaders of Vietnamese and French parliaments agreed at their talks in Paris.
The People’s Committee of the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien has approve a project to upgrade a number of relic sites on the former battlefield of the historic Dien Bien Phu campaign as the 65th anniversary of the victory nears (May 7, 1954-2019).
Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) possess potential for long-term and supplementary cooperation for mutual development, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong has said.
Movitel, the joint-venture between Vietnam’s military-run telecom provider Viettel and Mozambique’s SPI Invespar company, handed over 50 tonnes of relief food on March 26 to support residents in the central province of Sofala’s Beira city, who are suffering heavily from the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Idai, which ripped through the African country in mid-March.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Chile Nguyen Ngoc Son and head of Cerro Navia district Mauro Tamayo Rozas recently signed an agreement in Santiago to repair a park named after late President Ho Chi Minh in the district.
A delegation of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) led by deputy head Pham Van Hao held a working session with the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands on March 5.
Although there have been some positive signs in recent years, Vietnam’s sea transport sector still face difficulties with many enterprises suffering heavy losses. The maritime industry is proposing support mechanisms to help the sector out of its stagnant state.
The Republic of Korea (RoK) was the biggest investor in Ho Chi Minh City in the first two months of 2019, engulfing 43.2 percent of the city’s total foreign direct investment (FDI) for the period.
More than 13,500 enterprises suspended operation for fixed periods during the first two months of this year, up 20.8 percent compared to the same period in 2018, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Up to 131 weak bridges on the North-South railway will be repaired or replaced by 2021.
The automobile exhibition Automechanika opened in Ho Chi Minh City’s Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre on February 28.
Twenty two official development assistance (ODA) projects with total investment exceeding 2.7 billion USD have been deployed in irrigation since 1994, according to an official of the central project office (CPO) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
The Board of Investment (BoI) of Thailand recently approved five investment projects worth a total of 40.46 billion THB (nearly 1.3 billion USD) during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, reported Thai media on February 26.
The Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital in Hanoi successfully performed an endoscopic surgery through the mouth to repair a patient’s orbital floor, announced the hospital on February 17.
